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City approves Cornell’s Meinig Fieldhouse project as activists raise last-ditch legal concerns
ITHACA, N.Y. — The City of Ithaca Planning Board decided on Thursday to move forward with the preliminary and final site approval for the controversial synthetic turf project at Cornell University in a unanimous vote, despite a recently filed petition to reject the negative declaration of environmental significance that was approved last month.
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